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lenora_roseFurther to the cheesy music lyric meme. This post includes hints.
1) I went out late one evening, moon was shining bright/Somewhere off into the distance burned a neon light. (Hint: The band is best known for doing religious bluegrass with emphasis on vocal harmony, and were at the folk fest not long ago. They're possibly obscure, so that's the best I can do.)
2) Where the road is dark, /and the seed is sowed / where the gun is cocked /and the bullet's cold Bruce Springsteen. Still looking for a song title. New hint: More recent, not older
3) We fell down, we went blind/ we built a jail inside our minds/I have no song at all to break a prison wall Oysterband. needs a song title. It *is* older and off a less common album.
4) On either side the river lie/long fields of barley and of rye/that clothe the wold and meet the sky (Hint: The lyrics are rather older than the music. 1843, to be precise. I also corrected a mistake I made transcribing them by ear. )
5) Well met, well met said an old true love/well met, well met said he/I've just returned from the salt salt sea/and it's all for the love of thee.
(Okay. I have versions with four different bands performing it. The one that came up is probably the *most* obscure, so I'll take any of the four, even the one that renders it as unlistenable godawfulness.) (HInt: Actually, it's hard to think of another hint for this. Some versions end with the two main characters going to hell, some just end with a ship sinking or other random violence.)
6) As I was a walking one morning in May/I saw a pretty fair maid and unto her did say/Oh my darling I'm inclined/I'll tell to you me mind, me inclination lies in (Title of song)
(Hint for specific artist; this song won a BBC folk award for the year it was released. I've also described it aloud as the cleanest dirty song ever.) (Hint: This one CAME with a hint. Okay. The plot involves a young man arguing that the bible says they should go forth and multiply, so the girl sleeping with him is actually a good pious act.)
7) He took four hundred thousand men/likewise some kings to swell his throng/he was so well provided/enough to sweep the world along (Hint: the "he" referred to is Napoleon.)
8) They bind his eyes with a silken scarf/in his ear, a friend explains/"The one you catch is the one you kiss."/How we all love party games! (Hint: The writer of the song is a well known guitarist. The singer is the artist who was never married to him but otherwise most likely to cover him. And I don't know if he or his wife recorded this one.)
9) Hey little (Title of song) tell me where you're going/the twilight hours are long over and the winter winds are blowing/do you have a secret that keeps you set apart/or are you just a victim of someone's hardened heart? Heather ***. Needs a surname and a song title.(HInt: This would be the only known transsexual artist in my collection. though se wasn't yet at the time this song was recorded.)
10) Last night when I saw him last night last week / when I saw my lover with a flush in his cheek... (Hint: Her father does extremely traditional British folk. She only sometimes does.)
11) Monday finds you like a bomb / that's been left ticking there too long/ you're bleeding Eurythmics.. Still needs a song title.
12) All hands on deck/ please don't panic/It's probably a drill,/ there's really nothing wrong/Steady as she goes/On the Titanic (Hint: Francophone Maritime folk-rocker. Was at the folk fest)
13) Take everything / that you gave when things were nice / Fake everything / if it makes you feel all right ( Ruthie Foster. Still needs a song.)
14) On rides a captain and three hundred soldier lads/out of the morning mist and through the silent snow (hint: the song is I think trad, but this duo are the best known performers of it. Both members also have songs in this list from their solo work)
15) A little blood and vomit on the car seat / and a tooth is sitting in my lap
(Hint: A Canadian musician who actually got radio play. The song I first heard on the radio and seemed to get the most play for a while starts "Science wears a new suit to his coffee, toast, and eggs. But he has to climb the stairs now, 'cause of two broken legs.")
16) I think of your room / I think of you there/I think of you dragging /your body upstairs (Hint: Canadian trio, on the borders of folk, rock, blues, and bluegrassy country. I listen to two of them doing solo work, too.)
17) Princess of lust/ Dignity put to dust/a virginal sight/ Their apple to bite
(Honesty compels me to admit I'd have never got this one. I had to look it up.) (Hint: A Finnish band usually filed in a genre not otherwise covered here. I got into a debate with my brother about another genre that embraces them, so I needed to specify "filed".)
18) I came to the place where the (title redacted) lay / and pensively stood by his tomb/ When in a low whisper/ I heard something say/how sweetly I sleep here alone. (hint: a bluegrass band with emphasis on cello.)
19) I come in on the night train/ With an arm full of box cars / The wings of a magpie / 'cross the hooligan night (Hint: I listen to this artist a LOT less than I did in university the first time around, but I also very recently bought his first album.)
20) So/So you think you can tell/Heaven from Hell/ Blue skies from pain
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd. Per Mom, with a probable nod to Vilashna on band name.
Bonus tracks (If you can't get the song or artist, you'll still get a credit if you name the languages...)
1) Kuljin kujia katselin taloja talon tapoja /Kuljin kujia katselin taloja talon tapoja / astuin tupahan täytehen talohonn vierahassen/ astuin tupahan täytehen talohonn vierahassen (Finnish, per mom. Also Varttina.
2) Inte krusar jag för du är nätt och grann / får jag inte dig så tar väl jag en ann' Swedish (Which narrows it down to two bands, I think, since I have no In Extremo on the MP3 player.)(New hint; This band also sings in Finnish. Which narrows it to ONE band in my collection.)
3) Il faut (Title redacted, yes, even in other languages) / changer de paysage / le pied sur un herberge / vierge. French (Hint: The artist being from Benin, she's usually singing in either English or the local language, not French. She's worked with other well-known artists ranging from Peter Gabriel to Ziggy Marley. )
4) (Actual first line is song title, so redacted)/venientes perrexerunt/velut cum gaudio celestis paradisi/suscepte sunt Latin (Hint: From an album described as a collaboration between a modern electronic folk group and a 900-year-old woman.)
5) yondeiru muneno dokoka okude / itsumo kokoro odoru yume wo mitai Japanese (Hint: It's from a movie soundtrack. Unlike Colin, I only have Japanese soundtracks from movies by one director.)
1) I went out late one evening, moon was shining bright/Somewhere off into the distance burned a neon light. (Hint: The band is best known for doing religious bluegrass with emphasis on vocal harmony, and were at the folk fest not long ago. They're possibly obscure, so that's the best I can do.)
2) Where the road is dark, /and the seed is sowed / where the gun is cocked /and the bullet's cold Bruce Springsteen. Still looking for a song title. New hint: More recent, not older
3) We fell down, we went blind/ we built a jail inside our minds/I have no song at all to break a prison wall Oysterband. needs a song title. It *is* older and off a less common album.
4) On either side the river lie/long fields of barley and of rye/that clothe the wold and meet the sky (Hint: The lyrics are rather older than the music. 1843, to be precise. I also corrected a mistake I made transcribing them by ear. )
5) Well met, well met said an old true love/well met, well met said he/I've just returned from the salt salt sea/and it's all for the love of thee.
(Okay. I have versions with four different bands performing it. The one that came up is probably the *most* obscure, so I'll take any of the four, even the one that renders it as unlistenable godawfulness.) (HInt: Actually, it's hard to think of another hint for this. Some versions end with the two main characters going to hell, some just end with a ship sinking or other random violence.)
6) As I was a walking one morning in May/I saw a pretty fair maid and unto her did say/Oh my darling I'm inclined/I'll tell to you me mind, me inclination lies in (Title of song)
(Hint for specific artist; this song won a BBC folk award for the year it was released. I've also described it aloud as the cleanest dirty song ever.) (Hint: This one CAME with a hint. Okay. The plot involves a young man arguing that the bible says they should go forth and multiply, so the girl sleeping with him is actually a good pious act.)
7) He took four hundred thousand men/likewise some kings to swell his throng/he was so well provided/enough to sweep the world along (Hint: the "he" referred to is Napoleon.)
8) They bind his eyes with a silken scarf/in his ear, a friend explains/"The one you catch is the one you kiss."/How we all love party games! (Hint: The writer of the song is a well known guitarist. The singer is the artist who was never married to him but otherwise most likely to cover him. And I don't know if he or his wife recorded this one.)
9) Hey little (Title of song) tell me where you're going/the twilight hours are long over and the winter winds are blowing/do you have a secret that keeps you set apart/or are you just a victim of someone's hardened heart? Heather ***. Needs a surname and a song title.(HInt: This would be the only known transsexual artist in my collection. though se wasn't yet at the time this song was recorded.)
10) Last night when I saw him last night last week / when I saw my lover with a flush in his cheek... (Hint: Her father does extremely traditional British folk. She only sometimes does.)
11) Monday finds you like a bomb / that's been left ticking there too long/ you're bleeding Eurythmics.. Still needs a song title.
12) All hands on deck/ please don't panic/It's probably a drill,/ there's really nothing wrong/Steady as she goes/On the Titanic (Hint: Francophone Maritime folk-rocker. Was at the folk fest)
13) Take everything / that you gave when things were nice / Fake everything / if it makes you feel all right ( Ruthie Foster. Still needs a song.)
14) On rides a captain and three hundred soldier lads/out of the morning mist and through the silent snow (hint: the song is I think trad, but this duo are the best known performers of it. Both members also have songs in this list from their solo work)
15) A little blood and vomit on the car seat / and a tooth is sitting in my lap
(Hint: A Canadian musician who actually got radio play. The song I first heard on the radio and seemed to get the most play for a while starts "Science wears a new suit to his coffee, toast, and eggs. But he has to climb the stairs now, 'cause of two broken legs.")
16) I think of your room / I think of you there/I think of you dragging /your body upstairs (Hint: Canadian trio, on the borders of folk, rock, blues, and bluegrassy country. I listen to two of them doing solo work, too.)
17) Princess of lust/ Dignity put to dust/a virginal sight/ Their apple to bite
(Honesty compels me to admit I'd have never got this one. I had to look it up.) (Hint: A Finnish band usually filed in a genre not otherwise covered here. I got into a debate with my brother about another genre that embraces them, so I needed to specify "filed".)
18) I came to the place where the (title redacted) lay / and pensively stood by his tomb/ When in a low whisper/ I heard something say/how sweetly I sleep here alone. (hint: a bluegrass band with emphasis on cello.)
19) I come in on the night train/ With an arm full of box cars / The wings of a magpie / 'cross the hooligan night (Hint: I listen to this artist a LOT less than I did in university the first time around, but I also very recently bought his first album.)
20) So/So you think you can tell/Heaven from Hell/ Blue skies from pain
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd. Per Mom, with a probable nod to Vilashna on band name.
Bonus tracks (If you can't get the song or artist, you'll still get a credit if you name the languages...)
1) Kuljin kujia katselin taloja talon tapoja /Kuljin kujia katselin taloja talon tapoja / astuin tupahan täytehen talohonn vierahassen/ astuin tupahan täytehen talohonn vierahassen (Finnish, per mom. Also Varttina.
2) Inte krusar jag för du är nätt och grann / får jag inte dig så tar väl jag en ann' Swedish (Which narrows it down to two bands, I think, since I have no In Extremo on the MP3 player.)(New hint; This band also sings in Finnish. Which narrows it to ONE band in my collection.)
3) Il faut (Title redacted, yes, even in other languages) / changer de paysage / le pied sur un herberge / vierge. French (Hint: The artist being from Benin, she's usually singing in either English or the local language, not French. She's worked with other well-known artists ranging from Peter Gabriel to Ziggy Marley. )
4) (Actual first line is song title, so redacted)/venientes perrexerunt/velut cum gaudio celestis paradisi/suscepte sunt Latin (Hint: From an album described as a collaboration between a modern electronic folk group and a 900-year-old woman.)
5) yondeiru muneno dokoka okude / itsumo kokoro odoru yume wo mitai Japanese (Hint: It's from a movie soundtrack. Unlike Colin, I only have Japanese soundtracks from movies by one director.)
